Thread: Two factor authentication - have you? Passwords

Being one "of those guys" that was on the internet way before 99,9% of the population had even heard of it and Tim had not invented HTML/HTTP yet I also have a very old email address. After many decades of warding of spam a couple of years ago my accounts were leaked "somewhere" and since then it got harder and harder for me to keep simple passwords since hackers have tried to hack my apple id, amazon, ebay etc.

Usually these are scripted attempts where a person is not actively doing things so the recent trend of emails being send immediately after a change and my non existent sleeping pattern has helped me to always be one step ahead of those guys by resetting the password immediately but the attempts kept coming. Not only did that make logging into stuff extremely hard since you fall into the black hole of "we see you are logging in from an unexpected location" etc. etc. but it also made remembering passwords an impossibility. I never trust anything cloud, unless I run it myself so it took quite some time for me to switch to a password manager.

I since have switched to a password manager, to bitwarden, which has a community server you can run yourself so only you has access to your data. My life has since become MOSTLY easier but in certain situations you need to actually type a password it has become a number of factors harder... The beauty of bitwarden, imho, is that it has a OTP function built in so that two factor authentication through that has become a breeze. All I need to do is have my password manager unlocked, type CMD-L (on a mac) to fill in the login form and the application also puts the OTP code on the clipboard so when the screen jumps to: enter your two factor authorization code all I have to do is CMD-V (or paste) and hit enter to log in. With two factor auth on most accounts all those hacking attempts have ceased.
More secure, and faster logins. Just to bad that some only work with sms as two factor auth codes

ie. I rate bitwarden, two factor can be a hassle but can be mitigated with a password manager.

Cheers,
-P

Originally Posted by superquag

What is the juice on what this bloke has to say about Two-Factor authentication. ? - much (most....) goes so high over my head it doesn't ruffle the hair...

- Lots of info on other subjects, such as de-googled and Linux OS phones.

ALL comments welcome !

2FA is a Big Tech Scam! You Must Resist! - YouTube


EDIT: - Would this be a case for "burner" mobiles - like is available in USA ? A totally anonymous phone with no documented connection to the owner. Yep, am a tad paranoid over tracking etc.

Burner phones will never happen in Australia, the legislation tying (potential ) internet connections to people is too strong. This is not to say that it is effective, just stating that to get a phone without ID tying it to the owner is pretty difficult and probably is only achievable via forged ID documents, so not legal.

Regards,
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